The engine behind every number.
ARCNM turns 3D CAD and 2D drawings into a defensible, auditable cost. Three layers do the work — deep feature extraction, manufacturing-process analysis, and cost calculation — with first-principles physics as the ground truth and precision AI in every layer.
1. Deep feature extraction & PMI fusion
ARCNM reads the 3D solid and AI reads the 2D drawing. The two are fused so every dimension, tolerance and GD&T callout binds to the geometry it constrains, with stable feature IDs that come back the same on every run.
2. Manufacturing-process physics
ARCNM plans the part into operations and machines and returns physics-grounded setup and cycle times for drilling, milling, turning, press-brake bending, laser, plasma and waterjet cutting, wire EDM and grinding — per operation and per machine.
3. Lot-size cost curve
Cost is a curve over lot size, not a single number. ARCNM returns the unit cost at ten lot sizes from 1 to 2,500, the machine chosen at each quantity, the learning curve, and the optimum lot on an annual-total-cost basis — setup and holding cost included.
Per-source calibration
Every rate and every value in a calculation names its source — your environment, or the reference it started from. Your own actuals calibrate each environment to a plant, supplier or region, with an honest confidence band, while the physics stays the ground truth: accuracy never means a distorted model.
Your data
Calculations are auditable end-to-end with full provenance, multi-tenant isolation, and per-tenant environments for machines, rates and materials. The material catalogue carries 536 grades under 1,913 designations; a material it does not carry you register yourself, with your own house spellings, and it prices exactly like a catalogue grade.